Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-07

ieueTdteS Win IlnSS In THIS WOrk, and to
have furnished him means to make the
bombs, while all of them preached the use
Of dynamite and the knife and torch and
the bomb against the police md militia.
They had power as leaders of sections to
call such meetings AS that of May 4th; to
use the secret signal-that appeared that
day-to notify the conspirators to attend
armed with bombs and pistols, acids and
other destructive agents.
The plan was to demoraiize the police
by bomb explosion, disclose from secret
hiding the ciaemen of the Lehr and Weir
Verein, who were to fire into the police
and put them to rout, and then, before
there could be any rally to capture the
Desplaines street and other police stations,
and terrorize the city by armed sections
of Anarchists, and by fires to be set in the
central parts of the town.
At the meeting the armed Anarchists
were mainly gathered about the mouth of
the alley back of the Haymarket whence
the bomb was cast that killed the
police. Just before the bomb was thrown,
Fieiden had shouted clay hold on the law,
throttle it until it makes its last kick, stab
it, do everything you can to wound it,"
1t is disputed point whether the Anar-
chists fired upon the police simultaneously
with the throwing of the bomb or just
aitei wards The testimony shows two
officers died of bullet wounds received from
weapons different from those used by the
police force. 1t was proved that shots
were fired from the sidewalk towards the
police, and presumably by Anarchist con-
spirators a pistol was found under the
wagon after the riot unlike those carried
by the police, and the Anarchists around
the wagon were seen by several witnesses
to he holding pistols in their hands.
Schwab, one Of the Anarchists, it was
proved, passed the police station just be-
fore the killing, and saw the force coming
as he went to the meeting. He ran on
ahead and began to talk to Spies excitedly,
and was heard to utter the word 'poliee."
The Anarchist signal word 'ruhe," was
printed in the Arbeiter Zeitung, the
evening of the riot; it was printed in heavy
type and UNDERSIGNED, and meant rally
armed" Lingg, Selinger, Lehman,
Smidike, Fielden, all armed, were proved
to be moving about in the crowd the night
of the killing, and on its outskirts, whisper
ing and counseling. Groups of Anar-
chists were seen that evening gathered at
corners of streets near by the Haymarket
and Spies, Gryce, Fischer, Rau and
Schwab visited them and went into the
thickest of them, and the latter is the fell
low who distributed the Revenge" circu-
lars.
A great mass of indisputable evidence
relating to meetings, bomb-making, Sc
cret signals, appeals to murder and arson,
and the distribution of bombs at Lips
and other halls, convinced the Jurors that
the seven condemned men conspired to
make and distribute the bombs to be
thrown at the Haymarket meeting, for the
express purpose of killing and demoraliz-
ing the police, who were to be melted to
attempt to disperse the meeting, by reason
of the incendiary utterances of the speak
ers and the noise made by the Anarchists.
There is in Illinois no distinction be-
tween principal and accessory, and the
jury believing the seven men to be of the
conspiracy and active participants in it,
therefore found them guilty of murder
These are the assassins Governor
Oglesby is asked to rescue from the gall
lows. We have barely glanced at the
facts connecting them with the Haymar-
ket assassination. But it must be under
stood that the circuInstantial and direct
evidence relating them to it criminally
were overwhelming, 10 Say nothing of the
confession of one of the number and the
after declarations of ali the prisoners of
their satisfaction over the killing of the
officers.
! 1t is horrible sort of literature. but
would enlighten the public much concern
ing anarchism if we had space to publish
even extracts from the speeches and arti-
Giles of Schwab, Parsons, Spies and Feilden,
in which they preached murder and arson,
and on the very day of the killing of the
officers declared that ''the passport to
Eden is anarchy" and that the duty of
the Anarchist is to make themselves mas
tiers of dynamite, to anger the militiamen
and police officers, aiming at their hearts
with dagger, pistol or gun, to take their
hireling lives, aHd to throw dynamite
bombs into the streets and homes Of the
people until anarchy prevails, society is
undone, and the State destroyed, when
''the grand work Of recognizing with one
grand, central body of direction" can be
entered upon.
1t is seven such murderers as these
apologizing fer crime on the plea Of politi-
cal and social revolution, who are to be
hanged on Friday next, if ultra-senti-
mental clergymen, cranky women, secret
Anarchists, weakened philanthropists,
and cowardly politicians do not prevail
upon Governor Oglesby to interrupt the
process of the law
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in the death of Henry Edgerton one of
the most gifted orators of the country was
taken from the stage OF action Scarcely
any man had such a wealth of felicitous
language at ready command He was less
adebater than an orator. His prepared
orations were like chiseled work by rare
artists, and for symmetry, grace and ele-
oance Will ramnin models of tho h;nLn-.